Gifford Watkins

Current

• Founder of DotNetNuke Nova Scotia at DotNetNuke Corporation
• Founder and CEO at Atlantic Webfitters

Past

• Activities Intern at Park Cities Baptist Church

Education

• Acadia University
• Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
• Lee University

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Recommended

12 people have recommended Gifford

Connections

139 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Portfolio
• My Blog

Gifford Watkins’s Summary

Gifford is the architect behind bringing the engineers of Atlantic Webfitters together and brings a highly informed background in business flow technology, web services and human relations. Gifford’s strengths include his strong personal communication skills and capacity to evaluate business processes in order to educate potential clients on the value of Portal Software to their businesses.

Gifford Watkins’s Specialties:

An informed background in business flow technology, portal web services and human relations.

Gifford also leads the DotNetNuke User Group for Nova Scotia, Canada.

Gifford Watkins’s Experience

• Founder of DotNetNuke Nova Scotia

  DotNetNuke Corporation

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  The Nova Scotia DNN UG meets each Friday at noon in Halifax.
  
  To see all DotNetNuke Community User Group Events - (copy and paste this URL) http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Events/tabid/644/Default.aspx

• Founder and CEO

  Atlantic Webfitters

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

  Atlantic WebFitters is a Nova Scotia based developer and distributor of Browser-Based Portal Software. This emerging technology allows organizations to establish Internet websites, corporate Intranets, information portals and storefront delivery systems. Companies maintain the content of these systems easily and quickly without specialized computer skills.

• Activities Intern

  Park Cities Baptist Church

  (Non-Profit; Religious Institutions industry)

  November 1994 — August 1996 (1 year 10 months)

  While attending seminary at SWBTS, I interned under Minister of Activities, Don Duren running leagues in basketball, softball, volleyball, tennis, and golf.

Gifford Watkins’s Education

• Acadia University

  Masters , Divinity , 2003 — 2004

  I completed a Masters in Divinity equivalent to enter the Doctorate of Ministry program... and dropped out, ugh.

• Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

  M.A. , Education , 1994 — 1996

  Bursary Scholarships wooed him to South Western Baptist Theological Seminary (TX) where he began a Master of Arts in Education while interning at Park Cities Baptist Church in North Dallas. Gifford completed the degree at Oxford University (UK) in the summer of 1996.

  Activities and Societies:

  Bursary Scholarship.

• Lee University

  B.Sc. , Education , 1989 — 1993

  Gifford was privately schooled in Nova Scotia; a tennis scholarship led to Lee University (TN) where he earned a Bachelor of Science.

  Activities and Societies:

  Tennis Scholarship

Additional Information

Gifford Watkins’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Portfolio
• My Blog

Gifford Watkins’s Interests:

human relationships, portal software, engineering, creation, deployment, hosting

Gifford Watkins’s Groups:

DotNetNuke User Group Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

•    Mobile Insiders
•    Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org
•    DotNetNuke Community
•    .NET People
•    Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs)
•    DotNetNuke
•    East Coast Tech Connection
•    DotNetNuke Professional
•    Friends of Nova Scotia, Canada
•    DotNetNuke OpenForce
•    DotNetNuke Nova Scotia (dnnns.com)
•    Fans of Digsby
•    Goldbugs
•    East Coast Connected
•    Twitter for Communicators
•    Tall Ships Nova Scotia 2009
•    THE TRADE-OFF MAP for Customer Experience Innovation
•    Book: "Trade-Off" by Kevin Maney

Gifford Watkins’s Honors:

Branham voted Top 25 CDN IT firms Up and Coming
http://www.branhamgroup.com/branham300/index.php?year=2008&listing=3

Intel publishes Atlantic Webfitters Case Studies
http://www.atlanticwebfitters.ca/Portals/0/Intel/Intel_AtlanticWebfitters_CaseStudies.pdf

Gifford Watkins’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch